Adding sound to an OLD laptop

[SteveC]

Hi guys,

Got another notebook question for you:

I have an old 486 toshiba laptop which has no sound card. It'd be real useful if I could get it to be able to play back MP3s - is there any way I could get sound out of it? PCMCIA card or something?

Actually, can 486s even play MP3s?

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[DentyCracker]

at half rate they may be able to but not at CD Quality. There were settings in wmp6.x for that

[RichL]

You could try the old Windows 3.1 speaker driver which can be made to work under Win95.
Failing that you used to be able to get a soundcard that plugged into the parallel port. I think it was made by Logitech.

[Maggi]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by SteveC:
Hi guys,

Got another notebook question for you:

I have an old 486 toshiba laptop which has no sound card. It'd be real useful if I could get it to be able to play back MP3s - is there any way I could get sound out of it? PCMCIA card or something?

Actually, can 486s even play MP3s?

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Noodles has his old 486 running Linux and serving MP3s ... ask him